Revision as of 18:15, 22 July 2008

This is the home page for information on the planning for the Web Tools Platform (WTP) Project 3.1 release.

Planning Process

The Eclipse Board has mandated that all top-level projects should keep their project plan in a standard format. See, Development_Resources/Project_Plan for details. The following process is to help automate as much of the plan as possible.

We will use Bugzilla to track the features. Use the 'plan' keyword to submit feature requests for this release.

Project leads will triage these requests. A feature request will have the following stages in a release:

Proposed

These are features that the Project Lead has triaged for the release. These are items that are either being investigated or items that the project would like to explore but are not yet Committed. Most of the features should start as proposed items. After a review and some amount of detailed planning, their status will either become committed or deferred.The Project Lead will set the Target Milestone field of the bug to 3.1.

Committed

These are features that project team is definitely going to address in the release. Resources and some amount of detailed plans have been identified for such items. The Project Lead will set the Target Milestone field of the bug to the specific milestones in which it will be available.

Deferred

These are valid features that started in a Proposed state but will not be addressed in this release. Each such item will have a brief note explaining the cause for the deferral. The Project Lead will set the Target Milestone field of the bug to Future

The PMC and the Project Leads will identify Themees for this release. If applicable, feature requests can be linked to a theme. The mechanism for defining a theme and linking a feature request to a theme is to be determined.

TimeLine

Planning Roadmap

Due Date

Task Description

Owner

Status

July 24, 2008

First iteration of themes and features planned for the release

PMC and Project Leads

July 31, 2008

Publish draft plan in the standard format

PMC

August 21, 2008

Second iteration of the project plan

WTP Project Leads

September 04, 2008

PMC Review and Publish the initial plan document

PMC

Update plan to reflect committed tasks for milestone

WTP Project Leads

Initial Milestones

Iterate until the feature freeze milestone

PMC

Task completed =

Status for First iteration of themes and features planned for the release